Crossword Puzzle Number 1212 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. Filled or impregnated with perfume.
12. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. A city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley.
20. The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
24. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
31. A native or inhabitant of Bahrain.
34. Relating to or accompanying birth.
36. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
37. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
39. A town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border.
42. Filled or abounding with fog or mist.
43. A French abbot.
45. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
51. Minor or subordinate.
52. A bar of sand.
54. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
57. Before noon.
58. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
64. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
70. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
71. An ordered reference standard.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. A skeletal muscle arising from the tibia.
77. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
78. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
79. The art of making and decorating pottery.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold.
2. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
3. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
4. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
5. The capital and largest city of Japan.
6. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
7. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
8. Fiddler crabs.
9. Wealth regarded as an evil influence.
10. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
11. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
12. A trivial lie.
13. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
14. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
19. (British informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
23. A decree that prohibits something.
25. Be going to.
28. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
29. Showing deterioration from age.
30. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
32. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
33. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. Cut the head of.
40. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
41. A person to whom money is paid.
44. Found along western Atlantic coast.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
53. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
55. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
56. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
59. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
60. Devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence.
61. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
62. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
63. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
65. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
66. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
67. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
72. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
76. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.

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